This delightful book is all about hope, love, and healing. Welchs dazzling prose will transport readers to the beautiful countryside of Italy, where young Lina is learning to process the loss of her mother. The journey of Lina discovering herself and her found family makesLove and Gelatoa wonderfully light and heartwarming read.

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A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweepingNew York Timesbestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isnt in the mood for Italys famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. Shes only there because it was her mothers dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isnt around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.

But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Linas uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mothers footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. Its a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her fatherand even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

Kirkus ReviewscalledLove & Gelatoa sure bet for fans of romance fiction, whileVOYAsaid readers will find it difficult to put this book down. Readers are about to discover a new place, a new romance, and a new talent.